Blessings among first to settle in Spokane valleyNeighbors were few and far between in 1884, when Mr. and Mrs. Anton Blessing came west to settle on their 223-acre farm a mile and a half southeast of Trentwood, where the long since forgotten...

Denies trouble at dam. - David H. Ryan declares no basis to reports filed. - David H. Ryan, general contractor on the Grand Coulee dam excavation job, issued a statement yesterday denying there is any labor trouble at the dam. He said reports to...

Boom time near at Coulee dam. - Bridge contractor unloading gear--To open highway-railway bids April 5. - "Big job" in June. - Banks off to Denver conference--Elmore excavation ready for reservoir. - By June 15 or July 1 at the latest, the peak of...

Heavy buying of Silversmith Out in front again, as in other days of this week, Silversmith was the object of a large interest at both sessions of the Standard Stock exchange yesterday. More than 12,000 in the afternoon in a total of 17...

Jack Waite up at local call Jack Waite proved very strong at the call today of the Standard Stock exchange of Spokane. It moved up steadily and rapidly during the session and closed 2 1/2c higher than its highest prices Friday.

Premier gross $1,192,218, year. - Mine costs, $594,965 -- paid $628,571 in dividends for 1933, H. A. Guess reports. - The value of the ore sold by the Premier Gold Mining company was $1,562,939 in 1933. Of this sum, $1,192,218 had been received and...

To spend $40,000 on placer mine Alaska continental of Spokane obtains two miles of gravel on Rock creek That $40,000 will be expended by the Alaska Continental Mining syndicate of Spokane on its placer mining leases at Rock Creek before any...

Boom time near at Coulee dam. - Bridge contractor unloading gear--To open highway-railway bids April 5. - "Big job" in June. - Banks off to Denver conference--Elmore excavation ready for reservoir. - By June 15 or July 1 at the latest, the peak of...

Mining Notes Jim McDonald, mining engineer, has been put in charge of the operations at the Meridian mine, near Camborne, B. C., where 36 men are employed. The work now being pushed consists of clearing out old tunnels for examination of the...

Wants state to build dam. - E. F. Banker wires engineers his views on Grand Coulee project. - The Spokesman-Review received from E. F. Banker the following telegram he sent to the banquet of the Founder Engineering society at Seattle Friday: ...

Fear big slide at Coulee dam. - A huge slide, estimated to be in its entirety nearly 500,000 cubic yards, is expected to slide down into the present excavation area on the west side of the Columbia river here, it was believed yesterday.

Lumber report. - A production of 100,603,974 feet of lumber by 574 down and operating mills in Oregon and Washington for the week ended March 17 was reported today by the West Coast Lumbermen's association, and increase of about 8,000,000 feet over...

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